A Sharp Left Turn
Mike ChunnThis is a gripping read that works on several levels. It’s the sliding-door story of someone who might have become a world-famous pop star had he not suffered from a severe phobic disorder.It’s the st …
Genre: Biography & Memoir
The Golden Era
Rod LaverBetween the 1950s and 1970s Australia was the world’s tennis superpower, producing players who dominated the grand slam events and the tour in both the amateur and professional eras. Of all of our pla …
Life Sentence
Carl WilliamsRRP: £14.99
In 2007 Carl Williams was convicted of three murders and sentenced to 35 years’ jail. Yet his role in the Melbourne Gangland Wars went far beyond a handful of killings, however brutal, and had made hi …
Shot Down
Marianne van VelzenRRP: £14.99
On 17 July 2014, Malaysian Airlines MH17 was shot out of the sky above Ukraine. Aboard were 298 people, 38 of whom were Australians. No one survived.Subsequently it was shown that the airliner was alm …
Going Back
Dr Munjed Al MuderisRRP: £14.99
In Munjed Al Muderis’s bestselling memoir Walking Free, he described his experience as a refugee fleeing Saddam Hussein’s Iraq, his terrifying sea journey to Australia and the brutal mandatory detenti …
The Home Stretch
Sally HowardRRP: £9.99
Forty years of feminism and still women do the majority of the housework. Why?In fact, while women are making slow but steady gains on gender disparities in the workplace, at home the gap is widening …
A Bit of a Stretch
Chris AtkinsRRP: £10.99
‘Shocking, scathing, entertaining.’ Guardian ‘Incredibly compelling.’ The Times’Heart-breaking.’ Sunday TimesWhere can a tin of tuna buy you clean clothes? Where is it easier to get ‘spice’ than parac …
After the First Six Weeks
Midwife CathRRP: £14.99
Midwife Cath has delivered more than 10,000 babies over the last 40 years, but her care of mothers and babies doesn’t end when they leave the hospital. She strongly believes that all families need ong …
Parisian Lives
Deirdre BairRRP: £12.99
A The Times & Sunday Times Book of the Year’Fascinating… Wonderfully entertaining and absorbing’ Sunday Times’Gripping… A story well told.’ New York Times Book ReviewFinalist for the Pulitzer Priz …
Girls at the Piano
Virginia LloydRRP: £14.99
Virginia Lloyd spent much of her childhood and adolescence learning and playing the piano and thought she would make a career as a pianist. When that didn’t happen, she spent a long time wondering abo …
Unbreakable Threads
Emma AdamsRRP: £14.99
An extraordinary story of courage and kindness and the ultimate triumph of family over what, at times, seem like insurmountable odds.’Abdul is dignified, defiant even, but his poise is beginning to we …
Esther
Jessica NorthRRP: £14.99
Esther only just escaped the hangman in London. She was aged 16 when she stood trial for stealing twenty-four yards of black silk lace, worth fifty shillings, from Harrops’ Drapery. Her sentence was ‘ …
The Library Book
Susan OrleanRRP: £12.99
A New York Times Book of the Year, 2018A REESE WITHERSPOON x HELLO SUNSHINE BOOK CLUB PICKA dazzling love letter to a beloved institution – our libraries.After moving to Los Angeles, Susan Orlean beca …
Freeman's California
John FreemanRRP: £10.99
The sixth volume in the series that has been hailed by NPR, O Magazine and Vogue, Freeman’s: California features stunning new work from a broad selection of writers, revealing everything that is impor …
A Game of Two Halves
Amy RaphaelEver wondered which goal Frank Lampard is proudest of, who Jürgen Klopp thinks will manage Liverpool in the future, what Rio Ferdinand thinks of Man United in the post-Ferguson years or exactly how ma …
Am I Doing This Right?
Tanya HennessyRRP: £9.99
Tanya Hennessy can’t tell the time on an analogue clock, was once employed as a stilt-walker and still sleeps with Morris, her childhood teddy bear, so naturally, she is the most qualified person to w …
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